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Americans divided between time travel, mind reading as preferred superpower

Will Rahn Senior Editor
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If you could have a superpower, what would it to be?

According to a new Marist poll, 28 percent of Americans would want the ability to travel through time, while another 28 percent would want to read other people’s minds. Sixteen percent of the population wish they could fly, while 11 percent pick teleportation, and 10 percent choose invisibility. The rest are unsure.

The survey states that a plurality of Gen X and the Greatest Generation responders chose mind reading, while Boomers tended to opt for time travel. Millennials were split between time travel and mind reading, 26 percent to 26 percent.

Time travel was most popular with men, 35 percent of whom picked that ability. A plurality of women wanted to read minds.

The poll was conducted in November and interviewed 12,000 Americans.